Tasmanian Times
Environment
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949Another lesson for Tassie … NZ Insects Downed by Government’s 1080 Blitz
A unique New Zealand native butterfly, the forest ringlet or Dodonidia helmsi (above image by Mike Lusk from Nature Watch), is on...
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Turnbull’s Lunatic Attack on Renewable Energy
South Australia just experienced one of the most ferocious storms of the last century, and instantaneously after this extreme weather event PM...
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We are the Life of the Stars
*Pic: Graphic prepared by Kim Peart in a virtual world with a poem by Kim ~ Star Sprite’s Song ~ writing as...
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The Second Lesson …
Hold on you missed the first one. No, that was just before Christmas when the Bass Strait cable went down with an...
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Eastern quolls edge closer to extinction – but it’s not too late to save them
Eastern quolls – small, fleet-footed and ferocious – are one of Australia’s few surviving marsupial predators1. They were once so common in...
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George Town Council and the Curious Case of the Arbitrary Highway Buffer Zone
‘Scenic management tourist road corridor’- Not exactly an exciting collection of words, but a section of the planning code that is of...
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The Only Thing We Need To Cut Is Our Misguided Faith In Trickle-Down Economics
*Pic: Mike Licht, Flickr We can’t trust the winners to compensate the losers, says Peter Whish-Wilson In the 1890s, US economists first...
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Off the Back of a Truck …
Tasmanian Times every now and again receives tip-offs and rumours and documents anonymously. The latest came from ‘Public Interest’ … TT offers...
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Tasmania … and culling deer
Pics: Michelle Terry Pic: Naani Abercrombie New Zealand’s 100% Pure Credibility Deficit New Zealand journalist Michelle Terry poses questions about the lack...
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Likely cause of Basslink failure is the Geelong Star
Pics: The damage … and the culprit? Geelong Star, before its renaming. And below, Basslink cable damage, including the gouge … The...
